On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
On 25 Sep 2003 14:51:56 -0700 Joseph Zitt wrote:
I suspect that they went with that format to be consistent with the rest of the reissue series, each of which combine the CD and SACD sound on a single disc. Since "Blonde on Blonde" was originally a double disc, they probably decided that it would be less confusing to keep with the hybrid format rather than have a single instance in the series that splits them onto discs with different formats (which would undoubtedly lead to people trying to return them as having one defective disc).
OK, that makes a little bit of sense :-). Thanks for the explanation.
Patrice (who did not realized that BLONDE ON BLONDE was a 2xLP...)
Blonde on Blonde actually predated The Mothers' "Freak Out!" by several months, which is commonly attributed as the first double rock album. Anyways, here's another theory.. is it possible the bitrate of the SACD layer prevented them from getting all 74 minutes on one disc?